Water leak found in residential building basement, Burlington VT
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Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a residential property near Loomis Street in Burlington, Vermont, due to a water leak and alarms going off. Crews searched for basement access to locate and shut off the water supply. Water was flowing in the laundry room, and access to the shutoff valve was initially unavailable. Teams explored the basement and surrounding areas to identify the water supply lines to stop the leak. Firefighters coordinated with the property contact to address the water issue with the tenant.
Audio|Heard on: Chittenden County Fire and EMS
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03:31
Transcript:
00:00
Table copies three is on scene, now the show on three sides will be fascinating, cancel.
00:09
PDSX-3. S-6-3 is on team.
00:13
Squad.
00:14
Squad four is on scene as well.
00:31
Power 1 command.
00:35
Go ahead.
00:38
We have a water issue in the back of the house on the side.
00:43
We're looking for a basement access to shut off the water.
00:45
We do have the Texas going off in their apartment as well.
00:48
I'm going to have you just do a 360 around the house,
00:51
see if you find any basement access.
00:52
I'm going to look inside the apartment and see if we can shut that water off and make sure there's not anything going out with the detectors going off.
01:00
Have a...
01:06
From Tarwan.
01:09
Go ahead, Tarwin.
01:11
We have a door,
01:14
Charlie Delta corner with a keypad.
01:17
It looks like it would be basement access.
01:22
You can copy that.
01:28
Tyre want to command.
01:31
Go ahead.
01:34
Captain, I was going to defer command to you.
01:37
I'm going to call.
01:39
Able see if there's a contact.
01:40
We can have some...
01:42
Contacting you to show up or get a code for that.
01:45
We're going to be in the basement to shut off the water.
01:48
We have water flowing in a laundry room, no access to the shutoff.
01:53
Ten-four. Great.
01:55
Abel from Loomis Street.
01:59
Loomis Street, Copy Direct, I'm looking for a contact now.
02:07
3A from command.
02:10
Go ahead.
02:13
We're in the basement now.
02:14
Where do you want the water shut off?
02:18
There should be hot water supply going toward the Charlie House, Charlie side of the house.
02:26
It'll be a half-inch line supplying the laundry room.
02:35
Advantage in 3A.
02:39
Go ahead. Milta's driving at center.
02:43
I'm going to knock on the floor here in the kitchen.
02:45
If you can locate that sound, those pipes coming through the floor right there, those are the ones we're going to need shut off.
02:56
Managing three days.
03:00
Go ahead.
03:04
How are you locating my sound?
03:08
Ten-four.
03:10
We just set off the kitchen hop.
03:17
From Louis-Climb.
03:20
Go ahead.
03:24
If you're able to get into the basement, we're still going to need a property contact, they have a water problem that they'll need to resolve with their tenant.
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Location mentioned:
Loomis St, Burlington, VT 05401
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